よよよよよよ！！！！うぁつうっぷ家族！！皆さん元気そうですよ、よかったと思うよ。最近、私はこの家族が誰だろうかと理解して来ました。カイヨとくにだれか？まだ子供じゃないですね。大人になたから兄弟たちはどうゆ人になたとかどゆこと好きかとぜんぜん知らないです。それと、カイヨはどなぐらい彼女がいますか？？？？写真を見せるからいっぱいがいるそうですよ（笑笑）。さすがわたしの弟。
Maybe google translate will do a good job with that, idk, but if you want I'll translate what it says for you in a year :)
Hey, so I'm attaching some pictures. We took a few pictures while we were ****BAPTIZING LEA THIS WEEKEND WAHOOOOOOOOO****!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was soooo sooo sooo happy yesterday. The whole day was nothing but smiles, high fives, and her trying to sneak us side hugs while no one was looking cause she knows we aren't supposed to hug girls, haha. She is an angel for sure and all the ward leaders and all the ward members were so happy that she has come into the church. Elder Lee did the confirmation right afterwards in Sacrament Meeting and Lea gave a very simple but very powerful testimony afterwards. Sister Matsui, her friend that referred her, is also in the baptism pictures. They are both super tiny, like, Elder Lee is a way small guy and he looks way big next to them. She bore her testimony in Sacrament Meeting about how hard she had prayed that she would be able to share the gospel with her friend and that she could come into the church with her. She then shared with everyone how happy she was when Lea decided to come with her to church that morning and that we were there ready and willing to invite her to learn about the gospel. Everything with Lea couldn't have gone smoother. It truly was miraculous from start to finish. This was Elder Lee's first investigator to get baptized and he is as happy as can be. The ward here is so fired up about dendo now! We had two people come up to us after church and tell us that they are going to bring their friends to church next week and want us to start teaching their friends!!! And then our Bishop has arranged for us to go to a pro baseball game with his family so that he can refer his crazy Buddhist cousin to us!!! Yippee!! But no, it's actually way good progress.
We were also privileged yesterday to be able to go with the Elders Quorum President and the Bishop to visit a brother's mother who had a stroke and was in the hospital. This lady, no joke, looked like she was relatively happy mid 70s year old lady, still had a solid head of brown hair and all. But, she was actually 91 years old!!! She has been little by little, miraculously recovering over the past few days and has basically regained most of her mobility and ability to use the left side of her body (that was the side that was hit hard by the stroke). We helped give her a blessing and then comforted her and told her what a great mother she is and how she doesn't have to worry about recovering. We gave her a picture of Jesus and shared with her a little scripture about hope. She took the picture and held it close to her chest and through a stream of tears told us how thankful she was for the blessing. She is not a member, but she has come to know Christ through the actions and deeds of her son.
We had a few more miracles this week with some of our investigators. One of which was with a bro named Yoshiki (he is 70 years old). He took us to the all you can eat steak house last Monday and before we began to eat he told us, "I know you guys have to pray before you eat food. Is it all right if I say the prayer this time??" We of course said yes and he said a wonderful prayer. This is the same guy that about a month ago snapped at us in a lesson after we tried to commit him to pray saying that he doesn't believe in God yet so how can we expect him to do anything he doesn't believe in. But, on his own, he has been able to find God and he says that he wants to join the church soon (like in a few months or so). Old dogs can learn new tricks, its' just really tricky for them to learn and it takes a while. We also had an amazing lesson with our Chinese bro, Yaung. We taught him the doctrine of Christ and about what we need to do to go to heaven and he got very embarrassed and upset and told us that he felt really bad for never learning this earlier. We told him that it wasn't his fault and that he can start now on the path and it will do him so much good. He really wants to change his life and we have helped him be able to recognize the spirit and he has had a few spiritual experiences over the past few weeks that have helped him gain a strong testimony of God and the spirit. He is committed to get baptized on July 14. His big problem now is that he has a part time job on Sundays so he can't come to church. We could really use all the prayer we can get with him so that he will be able to get Sundays off from work :)
We also met with our high school aged friend named Yuu who over the past ten days has read half of the BOM!!!!!! He loves it and was very sorry that he was unable to finish the whole thing yet. He totally is a lot like Teppei from Yachiyo! Hopefully, this time he WILL follow through and get baptized.
I've been having to brush up on my Chinese, Tagalog, and Indonesian speaking skills the past couple of weeks. My English is going down hill fast, haha. We've got investigators from all over the place and it's hard to ever communicate all of my thoughts and feelings to anyone.
There is no Elder Weber in the mission yet. I recon he will get here this next transfer. We made extreme party celebration sandwiches for lunch today. I included those in the pictures I'm sending :) Thank you for always sending me Elder Barnes' emails each week! I look forward to hearing about some of the cool things he is experiencing down there.
The first paragraph to this email was about the boys, but simply stated it's that they are too cool for school these days. I don't know where or how they got all the cool genes in the family, but Kelsie and I got jipped!!!! ;)
Have another safe, fun, and fantastic week my beloved family!!! Ganbaro Nippon!!!!!!!
I love you!!!!!!!!
Elder Crandall
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